Syphilis can have serious effects on your baby during pregnancy. Click here to learn more about how you can prevent it:
How is syphilis treated during pregnancy?5
Pregnant women with syphilis need to be treated right away with penicillin. For women who are allergic to penicillin, no other medicines are available for treatment. Your doctor will help you become less sensitive to the penicillin so it can be used before your baby is born. Treatment with penicillin will prevent passing syphilis to the baby. But women who are treated during the second half of pregnancy are at risk of premature labor and problems with their unborn baby.Yes, you can breastfeed if you have syphilis, but not if you have a sore on one or both of your breasts. If you have syphilis, it is possible to spread the infection to any part of your breast, including your nipple and areola. You can then spread syphilis to your baby.
Pump or hand-express your milk from the breast with sores until the sores heal. Pumping will help keep up your milk supply and prevent your breast from getting overly full and painful. You can store your milk to give to your baby in a bottle for another feeding. But if parts of your breast pump also touch the sore while pumping, throw the milk away.Syphilis can be treated. But you need to be tested and treated as soon as possible.
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